Work on the Fruit Garden & GreenHouse starts.......

Well after completing all the work on the Veggie patch last year, and having a fully functioning Veggie patch by the summer, it was time to turn my skills and attention to the Fruit Garden, and this huge desire to actually build from scratch my own greenhouse. I have since sketched down lots of different ideas, taken measurements, and even drawn it up on AutoCAD.

One all this was done, it was time to start work on the area, as you can see from previous pictures, I started putting in the posts for the fence, but then we got to the cold and snow of January, and nothing else happened.

Over the January and February months, and only having weekends at my disposal, I managed to complete the fence as far as I needed to go, and have also dug the foundations for the Greenhouse, poured the footings, and also built the wall, and its now half painted, ready to start building the frame. So see the progress photos to show the current work in progress!!!

Frozen lake in the Snow

Well due to the snow, and not being able to get my car off my drive, due to my car being rear wheel drive, and having a 30m long driveway, which meant that I couldn't get to work, so I ended up spending the day at home on Wednesday 6th January.

I live in front of a HUGEEEEEE lake, and its great to go bird watching, or just getting away from it all. It's lovely in the summer, but soo sceanic in the winter with the snow, especially if you catch it at sunset.

Anyway, I took some lovely pictures as we walked around, so I will put some of these up in the absence of my gardening pics!!!

Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow!!!!

Well it's now 2010, and thanks to my old friend Global Warming, or so as some people would have you to believe, It is snowing, but what a load of old tripe!!! Global Warming!!! I remember back when I was a kid in the early 1980's, the snow being much worse, at least a ft deep, now if we get 4-5inches, the whole country seems to grind to a halt, at least we dont lose our electricity like we used to!!!! Unless you are in Hampshire of course!!! lol

Anyway, as it was over Xmas, didn't seem to do much on the house, or the garden, but in those couple days after New Years, before I went back to work, and before the snow came flying in, me and Amy (my wife), or correctly, Amy and I, managed to dig the 6x 2ft deep holes in the ground ready to concrete in the posts for the fence to enclose the impending fruit garden. But atlas, got them dug, got the posts in position, cut to right level, before it got to dark to be able to see what we were doing, not fun trying to use a spirit level to get the posts in the correct position, then wedging in bricks and hardcore, almost ready for concrete, by torch light!!

Anyway, thought to myself, I'll wait to the following weekend so I can concrete them, but unfortunately, the snow comes in, the temperature drops into the negatives, and suddenly, no concreting can be done until it warms up!!! So come on Global Warming, heat us up so I can concrete :)

But in the mean time, I thought I would post some pics of the positioning of the posts in the holes awaiting concrete.

Well until the next post.........

What a lack of ventilation!!!

Well, its currently 21.53pm on a Tuesday evening, and I'm watching Paradox on beeb 1, and a week today I will have finished work for Xmas, and hoping to do some work in the garden over the Xmas period, depending on the weather!

But weekend just gone, both me and the wife braved the cold weather to do some work in the garden on the chilly Sunday!

After making my shed look the bee's knees during the summer, the one thing I didn't think of was to add in some ventilation, so on Sunday morning when I went out to check on the state of my Banana plants / trees, I realised that I was getting mould growth on the wooden sheeting that makes up my roof. So decided to take drastic action, grab my sledge hammer and knock a precise 4" hole through my blockwork wall which is 23cm thick!! That way I could fit a ventilation shaft, or in reality a cut off length of Soil pipe left over from the shower room conversion. Then fit a ventilation extract cover.

My wife Amy also started on the lovely job of digging over the existing veggie patch, weeding as she went to get rid of all last years weeds, ready for the digging in of the 1tonne of manure that I need to order after Xmas.

Now I just need to wait until next weekend, and hope and pray for good weather so that we can get out and do some more work.